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subset.so
Company blog · subset.so/blog · on HN as antidnanprogrammingbusiness
subset.so is the company blog at subset.so, writing about programming and business. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Show HN: Subset – Spreadsheet building blocks on an infinite canvas”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link subset.so for writing on spreadsheet design, including the Excel 2.0 question of whether a better visual model than the cell grid exists, and the idea of a spreadsheet as a graph.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Subset – Spreadsheet building blocks on an infinite canvas3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-27
What Hacker News says?
The question of "what is a better visual data model than VisiCalc" is just one of the questions we can ask ourselves about how to create Excel 2.0. In the authors original post, they point out that Notion and Coda answer this question not with an evaluation on "cells" and the data model, but rather by extending the model to include a word processor. This isn't a purely visual change, but a functionality/integration…
Comment linking /
on “Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?”Submitted Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells? as a story · 246 points
HN discussionIt was most likely Subset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36894939 It appears they are re-engineering their product, as they've taken down their sign up link and their landing page now advertises an upcoming, more traditional spreadsheet product: https://subset.so/ Their docs are still up, however, and has screenshots from their old infinite canvas spreadsheet product: https://docs.subset.so/
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on “Ask HN: Help me find spreadsheet software I found on HN”Submitted OFFSET Formula for Scenario Analysis as a story · 16 points
HN discussionYOu might like this guy: https://subset.so/ "spreadsheet as a graph" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322281
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on “Adventures building a spreadsheet engine in Python”Submitted Will Buy-Now-Pay-Later Businesses Ever Make Money (spreadsheet)? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forecast your lambda costs as your userbase grows as a story · 5 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The problem with loan calculator apps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do spreadsheets count as a programming language as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Subset – Spreadsheet building blocks on an infinite canvas as a story · 1 points
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